Today Was A Fairytale// Lucerys Velaryon / OUAT / Criston Cole

21. If I Die

"Victor! Where did Davina go?" Hazel questioned as the cave darkened and Davina's face disappeared. "You're here to help us!"

"No, Hazel, listen. We got to get out of here, okay?"

"Listen to the doc, he got a degree, we are still learning how utterly stupid we are." Luke agreed, Hazel rolled her eyes. 

"So, you're still against me?" Hazel sassed crossing her arms over her chest. 

"Hazel, there's no time for that. Come on, Hazel! Come on!"

"Come on Haze." Luke agreed. 

"You don't believe me? You'll see. You'll see!" Hazel shouted running off, Luke looked to Victor. 

"I know, I love her and she's crazy. It's complicated." Luke admitted. 

"We will get her." Criston assured. 

"And if we can't?" Davina spat. "I wasnt fast enough." 

"Victor is down there with her." Criston reminded her. "He will keep her safe. "

"Davina, Sherif, if my son down here?" Lenny asked. 

"Oh shit." Davina murmured. "Of course he would be because Hazel is down there." Davina agreed. 

"LUKE!" Jace shouted getting closer. 

"There's something shiny down there." Hazel said pointing her flashlight. 

"Hazel, this is seriously dangerous. We got to get out of here."  Victor begged. 

"It could be something."

"Hazel please i'm not as brave as you." Luke remarked. "Remember when you went flying off the swings at the park and I nearly got sick flying off trying to copy you, this is so much worse." Luke begged. 

"look at me! Look at me!" Victor demanded turning Hazel around.  "I'm frightened for you, Hazel." Hazel's lips pursed. 

"Because you think I'm crazy?"

" No! No, because we are trapped underground in an abandoned mine, Hazel. And there is no way out."

Hazel hadnt thought about that. Hadnt thought of it like that. 

"I am trying to save her! You know why she went down there in the first place, don't you? Because you made her feel like she had something to prove." Davina was shouting at Alicent above ground. 

"And why does she think she has anything to prove? Who's encouraging her?" Alicent countered. 

"Do not put this on me."

"Oh, please! Lecture me until my daughters oxygen runs out!"

"We have to stop this. Arguing won't accomplish anything." Davina agreed. 

"No, it won't."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Help me." Alicent begged. 

"I hear them shouting." LUke said chasing the sound down the tunnel. "It's loudest over here."

"My man." Hazel agreed. "What's... What's this?"

"Looks like...an old elevator." Victor said examining it. 

"THen lets press up." Luke suggested. 

"I dont think it works." Hazel countered. 

"THen we are still screwed!" Luke shouted. 

"It's to get the mine workers in and out. It goes all the way to the top. That's why we could hear Davina and Mayor Alicent." Victor added.

" Can we make it work?"

" Let's give it a shot."

XXX

" I'm trying to remember this place. It's like... It's like I woke up in some strange land." Daemon remarked glumly. 

"Is there anything coming back? What about when you're with her? You remembered your dog." Nyra offered

"Yeah, I lied." Daemon admitted. 

"You did?" She was way to excited. 

"She's so loving and I didn't want to disappoint her. But none of it feels right. You know, a dog named Vhagar? Who would name their dog that? None of it makes sense. None of it... None of it feels real." Daemon admitted. 

"That sounds lonely."

"Actually, one thing does feel real. You... and that salty chick. She's familiar somehow."

"Shes new in town, focus on me please." Nyra begged. 

" I know it's crazy, but I swear you're the only thing in this whole place that feels... That feels right."

 "What was that? What the hell was that? You said you could do this!" Alicent shouted. Aegon shrugged the explosion didnt work it just possibly broke the mines even more. 

"Madam Mayor!" Davina cut in pulling her back from aegon

"They could have killed my daughter!"

"I know, but this isn't helping." Davina remarked, she wasnt one to be calm this was new for her. She was the firecracker loud mouth, not the one saying to calm down. 

"I'm really...really, really sorry." Hazel declared. "If we die down here I just want you to know you would have been invited to my and lukes wedding." Hazel added.  "I just wanted to find proof."

"You know, it's really alright, Hazel. And um, um, I'm sorry, too. Look, I... I don't think you're crazy. I-I just... I just think you got a very strong mother, who's got a clear idea of a path that she wants you to be on and when you step off that she... She gets scared. And, you know, it's natural. But it's also natural for you to be able to be free to think the things that you want to think. So, anyway. I... I didn't mean those things I said and I never should have said them."

" Then, why did you?" Luke questioned. "You really hurt Hazel and if we werent down here right now I would whoop your ass!" Hazel smiled softly as she grabbed tight to Luke's hand. 

" I guess I'm just not a very good person. I'm not the man I want to be."

"Well there is always time to change, be the king you were meant to be." Hazel offered. 

"I dont think the kingdom would be in good hands with me as king." Victor countered. 

"You are kind of right about that." Hazel chuckled as the elevator suddenly shifted farther down the shaft.

"Viserys... the king was a guy who took a long time to figure out the right thing to do. He was pulled in all directions listened to all the wrong people... but he had a good heart." Hazel added. 

" That kind of sounds like me." Viserys admitted. 

"Now it's harder for you because of the curse. To hear the voice inside of you. To be who you want to be." hazel added the elevator jerks, again, and moved farther down the shaft.

"You need to lower someone straight down, or the line will collapse the side of the shaft." 

"I've got a harness." Criston said running off. 

" Lower me down." ALicent agreed. 

"Oh, no way. I'm going." Davina corrected

"She's my daughter." Alicent demanded. 

"She's my daughter, too. You've been sitting behind a desk for ten years. I can do this."

"Just bring her home to me." Alicent begged.